The so-called Mossad ISD How Stephen Nuwagaba has manipulated powerful individuals and extorted large sums of money from them Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION TEAM | On March 17, 2025, Gen Salim Saleh received a visitor sent to him by human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo at his residence in Gulu. The visitor said his name is Steven Nuwagaba, and he is 26 years old. He said he had been tortured by the Chieftaincy of Defence Intelligence and Security (CDIS) and that his genitals were broken.
He said the architects of his ordeal were the Chief of CDIS, Maj Gen James Birungi, and his deputy, Brig Abdul Rugumayo. After torturing him, Nuwagaba told Saleh he was dumped at the Rwandan high commission in Kampala where the torture continued. Apparently because he had been involved in the case of one Mutabazi, a former bodyguard to President Paul Kagame who had been living in exile in Uganda.
Mutabazi had run away to Uganda in 2011 and was repatriated to Rwanda by Uganda authorities in 2013. Mutabazi was tried in an open court of law in Rwanda and sentenced to life in prison. According to his claims, Nuwagaba was born in 1999 (although his passport says 1998).
How, then, could he have gotten involved in the case of Mutabazi when he was only 13 or 14 years? According to sources close to Saleh, the general was not convinced that this was a tortured person based on how he looked. So, he called the 4th Division in Gulu and asked their medical personnel to examine Nuwagaba and send a medical report.
Saleh followed this telephone call with a handwritten note to the doctor at 4th Division, introducing Nuwagaba, and asking them to do a medical examination of his claims. Nuwagaba left but did not come back to Saleh. Indeed, as weeks passed and given his very busy schedule, Saleh forgot about the Nuwagaba matter.
Then one day in May, President Yoweri Museveni called Gen. He asked him why he (Saleh) and his military assistant, Col James Nkojo, had abducted a citizen and tortured him. Taken aback, Saleh asked the president who this citizen was.
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